Help With Xbmc As A Dashboard

I want to replace my evox dashboard with XBMC. I want to disable the auto-launch game function so I can ftp with my pc without having to do some change in my XBMC each time. So I want a Start Game button like in my evox screen. I do some search but don't find a clear answer. I try the scan function in my program folder but when I do that if I have a game in my dvd-rom, XBMC scan don't find my game and the DVD-rom folder disapear from the list of drive. I have the XBMC 1.1.0 2004-10-17 with Mayhem 1 skin. Is the Mayhem 2 skin will help me. If so, I see on their website that I have to upgrade to XBMC 1.1.0 2004-11-21. I can't find this release of XBMC, it don't seem to exist. Is it a mistake on their website.

I read the link you talk about on your post and I had already read it last night. I think that my mistake is to enable the scan function on My program setting. But my trouble is that with the scan disable, I don't have the icons of my apps in the screen and if I disable the auto-launch game function the only way for me to start the game was to go on My file menu, on DVD-rom and select default.xbe to start the game. On my program menu if a select DVD-rom in the left menu, my game don't appear in the screen. I will try some more thing tonight, maybe I have made a mistake.

Set that to 2 instead of 1. That is more than likely why its not displaying your games or other apps. With the depth set to 1 it will only scan for default.xbe for example if you have it set to look in f:\games it will not find anything located in f:\games\halo because that is 2 directories deep. So adjust the depth accordingly to your situation for your file structure.

For disabling auto-launch of your DVD-ROM, it's located in settings -> general -> autorun

Make sure you delete the myprogams.db, mymusic.db, & myvideos.db then restart XBMC. After you go to My Programs, then your games section, it will scan for default.xbes through your game directory. It's almost like a refresh of your stuff.

About the game directory setup, here's what I have in my xboxmediacenter.xml which finds all of my games set like this (example): F:\Games\Auto Modellista

Ok, so now I know how to setup my xbmc.xml to have my games and my apps icon when I launch XBMC but I have one last bug. I disable the auto-launch game but I can't see the default.xbe and I can't start a game when I press DVD-rom when I'm on My Program. Is it normal? The only way I can start a game when I'm in XBMC is to go on My Files, select DVD-rom and select default.xbe. Is it an other way. Of course i know that I can start the game if I reboot.